Tag: Settlers

  • First anniversary of double Sheikh Jarrah eviction

    2 August 2010 Today, August 2nd, marks one year since the Hanoun and al-Ghawi families were evicted from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem at 5:30 in the morning by Israeli security forces. The families, together with their Palestinian, Israeli and international supporters will mark the date with a gathering and…

  • Aqraba plants olive trees to ward off settlers

    1 August 2010 | ISM Media Residents of the village of Aqraba, near Nablus, planted forty young olive trees on their land on Thursday (29 July 2010) to send a message to settlers who have been plowing the area in an attempted land-grab. The Palestinian villagers were accompanied by many international volunteers – around thirty…

  • Wadi Qana farmland being polluted by settlement sewage

    31 July 2010 | ISM and IWPS (International Women’s Peace Service) Wadi Qana is a valley south west of Nablus where numerous springs supply water to the surrounding Palestinian villages. Approximately 60 people live in the valley itself, and many more own land in the area in which they farm animals and cultivate both citrus…